Sometimes you run into situations to try and understand where the files for your package that you just installed on your Sun Solaris Server. While this is no big deal for geeks lets help “not so geeks” with a way to find the files and path of installed package.

Here, on Sun Solaris 10, I know I’ve installed wget package and don’t have a clue where the files have gone into. Let’s start with finding the package name.

That gives you a more detailed insight on the package. If you look at the last part of the output, it displays the number of files, directories, paths installed and the number of executables installed.

To find the files installed

# pkgchk -v SUNWwgetu/usr
/usr/sfw
/usr/sfw/bin
/usr/sfw/bin/wget

This will give details of the package files, directories, paths and executable installed. For wget the executable is in /usr/sfw/bin/